... Computerised Instrument Control and Data Acquisition (CICADA) is a software system for control of telescope instruments in a distributed computing environment. ... Computerised Instrument Control and Data Acquisition (CICADA) is a software system developed to provide access to, control of, and retrieval of data from, instruments mounted on observatory telescopes. ... Each instrument class generates its own request data structures using its own generate_req method, which is called by the control...